| 词汇 | ancient history |
| 释义 | ancient historyancient history a) the history of ancient societies, such as Greece or Rome 古代史 a professor of ancient history 一位古代史教授 b) informal if you say that something is ancient history, you mean that it happened a long time ago and is not important now 很久以前的事，陈年往事〔指很久以前发生、现在已不重要的事〕 It’s all ancient history and I’m not upset anymore. 这都是陈年往事了，我不再生气了。 Examples from the Corpus ancient history• For one thing, this is not ancient history.• He was so beautiful in those days - listen to me, those days, talking like it was all ancient history.• The world of Lowry's north seems to be ancient history.• Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.• It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.• Will and I broke up a long time ago - that's ancient history now.• That, too, seemed like ancient history now.• He was very fond of ancient histories, stories and epics of earlier times and heroes.• But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old. → ancient history at ancient1(1) |
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